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Giving up on climate change? : Comments
By Mike Pope, published 14/1/2009The Rudd proposals on climate change will fail to achieve a meaningful reduction in carbon emissions.
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Faustino, I believe good Australian policy would make a considerable difference. The difference is not to be made with the tiny fraction of global CO2 output that Australia contributes, it is to be made by way of setting a good example and working closely with other countries in order to implement real international change.
Australia’s position on the world stage is considerably more prominent than our tiny portion of the world’s population would suggest it should be.
Whether or not anthropogenic global warming is real, there are other huge advantages to be won from addressing this issue:
Getting off our addiction to oil and onto renewable energy sources, greatly improving energy use efficiency, and yet to be realised – winding back of immigration, developing an economic system that is headed towards a steady state instead of being based on never-ending growth and eventually, getting it through our thick numbskulls that sustainability has to be the basis for our existence.
If we follow Krudd’s path, which is just business as usual with a slight green tinge, none of this will happen or at best, a little bit of progress on the first couple of points….we won’t achieve a sustainable existence and the whole economic and social structure will come tumbling down.